S. Scholten, NKR Intern
The Management of North Korean Materials in South Korean Libraries
“Knowledge is power.” There are no truer words in academia. Yet what happens when knowledge is limited, not just to a select few, but altogether? That is the situation when researching North Korea in South Korea. Researchers face a dearth of information about their chosen topic, whether it be music or military. There are several reasons for this, the most obvious being that North Korea does not easily let information about itself outside its borders. In South Korea, however,
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Luisa Kim, NKR Intern
Testimony and its Epistemological (Im)possibility
Picture Credit: Yonhap News, https://www.voakorea.com/a/2729885.html Resistance is a fact of history, and only in accepting this fact does history reveal itself to the partial openings through which it is seen. While resistance has been theorized and reinterpreted endlessly, it remains as the fundamental fact in learning to understand how the world functions. North Korea, or the ‘North Korea problem,’ stands at the center of politics not as a nation-state, but as an object of
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